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development. Given that some of the most important issues within the WTO concern its impact on poor people within developing … system that better facilitates the alleviation of poverty and development. Against this background, the book examines the …
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Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve …
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-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the US with Haitian … and the potential for policies of this kind to complement more traditional forms of development and humanitarian …
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The seventh goal of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is dedicated to ensuring access to affordable, reliable …, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030. While energy was implicit in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the SDGs … explicitly recognise the direct linkage between energy access and consumption and poverty and development. This evolution of the …
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The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in …
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other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession …
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Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the …
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In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz curve, but can also be seen as a measure of polarization...
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This paper discusses development policy objectives, noting how these have changed over the years, with a more explicit … difficulties that arise. It concludes that getting development policy right has the potential to lift millions out of poverty. …
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